Very Computer

  I am running emacs 19.30.1 from the slackware 3.0 distribution.
Whenever I tried to use "M-x ispell-buffer", I'll get the following
on a spelling mistake:

***ispell misalignment: word "abc" point2; please retry.

What does this mean?  How do I fix it?

Btw, I can check individual words (M-$) without any problem.

Thanks

Howard

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I solved it by adding one line to ispell.el

In the function:

(defun ispell-parse-output (output)
  "Parse the OUTPUT string of 'ispell' and return:
1: T for an exact match.
2: A string containing the root word for a match via suffix removal.
3: A list of possible correct spellings of the format:

.....etc, after the line:

 (setq offset (string-to-int output))

add the line:

(setq offset (+ offset -1))

and recompile ispell.el.
(off course you are smart enough to make back-ups off the originals
before you do this, and to clearly mark the line you have changed)
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